Charles Dickens Quotes - Page 9

• For the rest of his life, Oliver Twist remembers a single word of blessing spoken to him by another child because this word stood out so strikingly from the consistent discouragement around him.

  Charles Dickens

  Children, Blessing, Twists

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• A word in earnest is as good as a speech.

  Charles Dickens

  Words Of Wisdom, Speech, Earnest

  Charles Dickens (1870). “Novels”, p.38

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• Love, though said to be afflicted with blindness, is a vigilant watchman.

  Charles Dickens

  Love, Said, Blindness

  Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.7813, Delphi Classics

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• Her contempt for me was so strong, that it became infectious, and I caught it.

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  Strong, Great Expectations, Caught

  Charles Dickens (1873). “Tale of Two Cities”, p.275

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• He was simply and staunchly true to his duty alike in the large case and in the small. So all true souls ever are. So every true soul ever was, ever is, and ever will be. There is nothing little to the really great in spirit.

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  Soul, Littles, Spirit

  Charles Dickens (1870). “The Mystery of Edwin Drood”, p.132, Castrovilli Giuseppe

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• Vengeance and retribution require a long time; it is the rule.

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  Long, Vengeance, Retribution

  Charles Dickens (2015). “British Classics: A Tale of Two Cities (Illustrated)”, p.150, The Planet

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• My guiding star always is, Get hold of portable property.

  Charles Dickens

  Stars, Great Expectations, Property

  Charles Dickens (2009). “The Complete Works of Charles Dickens: Great Expectations”, p.190, Cosimo, Inc.

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• What lawsuits grow out of the graves of rich men, every day; sowing perjury, hatred, and lies among near kindred, where there should be nothing but love!

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  Love, Lying, Men

  Charles Dickens (1867). “The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit”, p.27

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• But the mere truth won't do. You must have a lawyer.

  Charles Dickens

  Law, Lawyer, Mere

  "Bleak House".

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• In love of home, the love of country has its rise.

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  Country, Love You, Home

  Charles Dickens (1841). “The Old Curiosity Shop”, p.2, B Times

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• They enter, locking themselves in, descend the rugged steps, and are down in the Crypt. The lantern is not wanted, for the moonlight strikes in at the groined windows, bare of glass, the broken frames for which cast patterns on the ground. The heavy pillars which support the roof engender masses of black shade, but between them there are lanes of light.

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  Light, Glasses, Broken

  Charles Dickens (1870). “The Mystery of Edwin Drood”, p.91, Castrovilli Giuseppe

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• Lord, keep my memory green.

  Charles Dickens

  Memories, Words Of Wisdom, Green

  Charles Dickens (1997). “Best Ghost Stories”, p.136, Wordsworth Editions

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• An observer of men who finds himself steadily repelled by some apparently trifling thing in a stranger is right to give it great weight. It may be the clue to the whole mystery. A hair or two will show where a lion is hidden. A very little key will open a very heavy door.

  Charles Dickens

  Men, Keys, Hair

  Charles Dickens, Peter Preston (1998). “The Mystery of Edwin Drood and Other Stories”, p.358, Wordsworth Editions

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• It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away.

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  Eye, Exercise, Cry

  Charles Dickens (1839). “Oliver Twist”, p.142

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• You are in every line I have ever read.

  Charles Dickens

  Lines

  Charles Dickens (1861). “Great Expectations”, p.167

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• 'Do you spell it with a 'V' or a 'W'?' inquired the judge. 'That depends upon the taste and fancy of the speller, my Lord'.

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  Judging, Fancy, Taste

  'Pickwick Papers' (1837) ch. 34

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• Let no man turn aside, ever so slightly, from the broad path of honour, on the plausible pretence that he is justified by the goodness of his end. All good ends can be worked out by good means.

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  Courage, Integrity, Mean

  Charles Dickens (1868). “Barnaby Rudge: And Hard Times”, p.374

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• The great grindstone, Earth, had turned when Mr. Lorry looked out again, and the sun was red on the courtyard. But, the lesser grindstone stood alone there in the calm morning air, with red upon it that the sun had never give, and would never take away.

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  Morning, Air, Giving

  Charles Dickens (2004). “The Shorter Novels of Charles Dickens”, p.837, Wordsworth Editions

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• Mrs Joe was a very clean housekeeper, but had an exquisite art of making her clenliness more umcomfortable and unacceptable than dirt itself. Cleanliness is next to godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

  Charles Dickens

  Art, People, Dirt

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• Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entirely surrounded by cows - and china.

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  Passion, Agriculture, Literature

  Charles Dickens (2016). “Dombey and Son”, p.292, Xist Publishing

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• things cannot be expected to turn up of themselves. We must in a measure assist to turn them up

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  Turns, Expected

  Charles Dickens (2016). “David Copperfield (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.309, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

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• I have been very fortunate in worldly matters; many men have worked much harder, and not succeeded half so well; but I never could have done what I have done, without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one object at a time, no matter how quickly its successor should come upon its heels, which I then formed.

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  Determination, Men, Order

  Charles Dickens (1858). “The Personal History of David Copperfield ... With Frontispiece by H. K. Browne”, p.356

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• I confess I have yet to learn that a lesson of the purest good may not be drawn from the vilest evil.

  Charles Dickens

  Evil, Lessons, May

  Charles Dickens (1842). “Oliver Twist”, p.3

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• Heaven suits the back to the burden.

  Charles Dickens

  Heaven, Suits, Burden

  Charles Dickens (1839). “The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby”, p.163

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• It was a harder day's journey than yesterday's, for there were long and weary hills to climb; and in journeys, as in life, it is a great deal easier to go down hill than up. However, they kept on, with unabated perseverance, and the hill has not yet lifted its face to heaven that perseverance will not gain the summit of at last.

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  Inspirational, Perseverance, Journey

  Charles Dickens (1995). “Nicholas Nickleby”, p.262, Wordsworth Editions

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